English Fairy Tales, The Cat and the Mouse, sentence 16

“Yes,” says the baker, “I'll give you some bread, But if you eat my meal, I'll cut off your head.”

Who acts: baker, you · What happens: say, give, eat, cut off · To what, where: bread, you, meal, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cat and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baker, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baker	det
7	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 bread	det
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cut	punct
17	But	but	CCONJ	_	26 cut	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 eat	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 eat	nsubj
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 meal	nmod:poss
22	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eat	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
25	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 cut	aux
26	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 cut	compound:prt
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cut	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the baker			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	give in a quote	future	the baker = baker	some bread	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bread=Theme
3	eat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	my meal		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
4	cut off in a quote	future	the baker = baker	your head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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